Life on this Earth Just Changed

According to this, and it's important to note that this researcher / scientist / author DOES think we are headed for another ice age, the collapsing
of these currents have nothing to do with it. In fact, he claims that the loops collapsed three times in 1996 alone.

The fact is that the Gulf loop current collapse is not all that unusual. "There is a well- known history of the gulf loop current
'collapsing'," says reader Dennis Waggener. "This happened three times in 1996. It is a common event and not at all unusual."

Now let me ask you. How can this current possibly stop? It is caused by the rotation of the earth.

Simply explained, the earth rotates counter-clockwise, pushing the water of the South Atlantic westward against Central and South America where
it splits into two streams - the Brazil Current, flowing south, and the Gulf Stream, flowing north, the Gulf Stream being greater of the two.

Although this article is 'answering' the question -- "Did the BP oil spill change our climate forever?", it still addresses the bottom-line
question -- "Does this changing in the currents signal a coming ice age?"

Also, some additional information regarding the breakdown of these loops in 1996 can be found here:

Originally posted by Heyyo_yoyo
lol... OMG - did anybody read the bio of the blogsite owner?

I'm sorry, but this guy seems to me to be heavily involved in some sort of chemical intake for me to truly believe a word he says.

Yeessss...... My guess is that he thinks he can trace his ancestry back to those who once held what are now defunct titles and has therefore usurped
them as his own, despite having no legal, moral or other right to the titles. I'm sure HM The Queen would be quite surprised to learn that he is her
official representative in Canada, for example ......

Aptly named, the North Atlantic Drift Current (NADC) is a slow-moving body of water located between about 50°-64°N and 10°-30°W. NADC is also
considered to be an extension of the North Atlantic Current.

The North Atlantic drift as represented by the Mariano Global Surface Velocity Analysis (MGSVA).

global warming is just a big global lie, an ice age has been on its way for a while now, this news will just speed the process up, the powers that be
are aware of this if you listen to whats being said by all media outlets in the last year its no longer global warming, its being called climate
change instead, covering their bets extreme warming or cooling so they can say see we got it right .

for years I hear debates on the currents that are natural temperature control mechanisms. If they stop, caused by several reasons, there will be less
warmth in the northern oceans and so the local climate will change. If we will have another ice age, we'll see. It is just funny that people will
blame BP for this again, haha. Ok probably the oildisaster, caused by many human flaws, it is just not a singularity, will have some influence on it,
maybe even push it over the edge, but in general the currents are on the edge for a few decades.

If an ice age will come it will clean our crap, and because of the rapidly changing environment, we will have to be in a innovative structure to coop
with new problems, we have to develop new "stuff" in a new way, not slowing it down for profit, but develop or die

Well I just emailed Joe Bastardi (one of the leading weatherman/climatologists) at Accuweather who is not bought and paid off to just go with the flow
of global climate change so hopefully I get a response soon.

Originally posted by Essan
Incidently, it's worth noting that the surface velocity of any ocean current, including the Gulf Stream and NADC is determined in part by the
weather. If there is a strong wind blowing counter to the direction of the current, then the surface water will move more slowly or even not at all.

It's possible, for example, that Hurricane Earl may have affected the speed of the Gulf Stream at the surface over recent days.

You're therefore often better off using the velocity at around 200m as a guide to whether a current is speeding up, slowing down or has
stopped.

don't you understand

As for an imminent ice age, well changes in northern hemisphere insolation have meant we've been in a steady downward temp trend or the past ~4,000
years or so - and would have expected that to continue for a while yet, although due to other aspects of the Milankovitch Cycles there's no
expectation of a full blown ice age. However recent events have changed that with the steadily growing Baffin ice caps having gone into major
decline. We're currently as far from a new ice age as we were at the height of the Holocene Climatic Optimum ~8,000 years ago.

A prolonged solar minumum - such as the Maunder Minimum - would lead to colder N Hemisphere winters, but given the starting point they would not be
as cold as those during the Maunder, which occurring during a general cold spell known as the Little Ice Age.

In short, no ice age in our lifetimes. Though cold winters can and will occur at any time over the next few millenia.

(It's worth bearing in mind that some of the coldest winters in Britain that we have any records of occurred during the Medieval Warm Period)

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